Thanks to Warren Bakay for suggesting this page to me, I hadn't even
realized until he mentioned it, the music industry is dredging up big
hits from the last decade due to a not-so-surprising lack of imagination by
the current stars. This should of course come to no suprise to
most people, some big hits of the eighties were covers
as well ("Mickey", "Der Kommisar", "You Keep Me Hanging On" (which was remade into a
hit four times so far)). So far though, most covers have been pretty
hideous. We only list songs that are originally from the eighties and are now being made
into covers. We also only list a band if they're already well known
or the group is making a lot of radio play with the remake.

Oh and to clear up a misconception a few people out there seem to be having
about this page (and sending me very nasty letters). I have no problem with
artists who do a cover of a song in concert, or because they are just
starting out and don't have enough original material of their own for a full
set of songs. As a matter of fact, cover bands can be great fun to
go and see. All groups in modern history start out this way, I own a lot of
The Beatles albums and they were the original cover group. A lot of
early rock songs were covers of old R&B tunes. It's a fact of life.

It's still as explicit as before. Not bad though..... not good either...

"Fade To Black", Originally by Metallica, Remade by Apoptygma Berzerk

very good dancable cover

"Fade To Grey", Originally by Visage, Remade by Mark O

He just speeded it up a lot the voices sound the same.... Mark O is a house/gabber kind of "artist", but not the kind that makes great gabber music that real gabbers, not including me, would like, but sorry top-40 stuff silly peple like nowadays. He sucks big time, and so does his cover.

"Fade to Black", Originally by Metallica, Remade by Apopgyma Berserk

Taked the metal ballad and turns it into a dance-club song, with all the good and bad that that entails.

"Fade to black", Originally by Metallica, Remade by Sonata Arctica

Sonata Arctica have done many covers and all are great!

"Fairytale Of New York", Originally by Pogues, Remade by No Use For A Name

Very Well Done

"Fame", Originally by Irene Cara, Remade by Models

i saw the video today in french music channel MCM... i think the original by I. Cara its so mutch better!! the cover is quite boring!

A Canadian dance singer who uses 2 Expose cover songs on her first album, "In Your Arms". She chose to remake "Fascinated" and "Point Of No Return" and does a pretty good job with them. Her version of "Fascinated" got heavy radio/club play here in Toronto, and I think her version of "Point Of No Return" is better than Expose's, but that's only my opinion. Her remakes are basically updated versions of those Expose hits, but still pretty faithful to the originals.

"Fascination", Originally by The Human League, Remade by OV7

I believe the original is actually called (Keep Feeling) Fascination

"Fascination Street", Originally by The Cure, Remade by Chimara

Chimara really amped up this version! It really kicked in good, but was shorter than the original. A metal band doing my favorite Cure song was all I could have dreamed for!

"Fascination Street", Originally by The Cure, Remade by Engine

Great cover. Much heavier than the original being that the band is a "supergroup"made up of members from Face to Face, Armored Saint and Fates Warning.

"Fascination Street", Originally by The Cure, Remade by Stavesacre

Quite a great remix. The remake is actually stronger, hard-rock-wise, than the original.

Well it's definately not as good as the original. At first I thought it was going to be a country version, but as soon as the lyrics started I realized it wasn't! I guess country rock would be a good description. I did like it though.

"Feel Like Makin' Love", Originally by Bad Company, Remade by Choco Star

i thought that the acoustic cover was 10x better then the original

"Feel Like Makin' Love", Originally by Bad Company, Remade by Goldfinger

Found on the cover CD "Darrin's Coconut Ass"

"Feel Like Makin' Love", Originally by Bad Company, Remade by Two Nice Girls

I love how this song goes from overbearing and overblown to funny and delicious when covered by a lesbian bluegrass bar band....

"Feeling Good", Originally by Nina Simone, Remade by Muse

wonderfully dippy take on the Nina Simone-popularised jazz standard "Feeling Good" is carried off with the passion and feeling as ever cover that aspires to be better than the original!

"A Fifth Of Beethoven", Originally by Walter Murphy , Remade by Thicke

The son of actor Alan Thicke takes the original song and adds his own lyrics to the music. Tacky!

Its hard to believe that a band consisting of suburban white guys from Toronto could cover one of the most militant rap songs ever, but its actually pretty good. It has a jazzy feel to it with the piano and floor bass. Ed Robertson and Steve Page have got the hip-hop patois down pretty well, and their voices do justice to Chuck D and Flavor Flav. Some may consider this rendition sacrilige, but if you don't take it too seriously, its a good listen.

"Final Countdown", Originally by Europe, Remade by Children of Bodom

They made the song into what it was supposed to be!! HEAVY METAL just GUITAR and no stupid synthesizers!! this version is a 1,000,000,000 times better than the original i hated the original but i love this song now because of Children of Bodom. WORTH a listen!!!

"The Final Countdown", Originally by Europe, Remade by Children of Bodom

Pretty good, lyrics which need a good dose of cough medicine and plenty of doublebassing on the drums, like it should be.

"Final Countdown", Originally by Europe, Remade by Children of Bodom

Nice nice, it has an extra dimension but it kinda lost the magic from the original.

"Final Countdown", Originally by Europe, Remade by Norther

Heavy metal version

"Fine Time", Originally by New Order, Remade by Biopsy

Experimental house turned death metal. Very awesome cover, has been on every metal CD I have burned so far.

I'm a big fan of CKY and I love their version. I also like Def Lepard's version but I prefer CKY's. Like half of the cover songs listed on this website, CKY's version of Foolin' is funny. I enjoyed listening to this song a lot and I suggest that everyone hear it.

"Foolin'", Originally by Def Leppard, Remade by Kix

A fading glam band covering a Def lep....hmmmm. Not bad though.

"Foolish Heart", Originally by Journey, Remade by Nina

Its a beautiful acoustic version of the original. The female soft voice adds a very different sound and emotion to the song.. loving it

"Footloose", Originally by Kenny Loggins, Remade by Good Charlotte

Footloose is my all time favorite movie. I love Kevin Bacon and I love Good Charlotte. So when I heard this version, I was blown away. Its so fun and just great. I love it.